From Manx Radio:
There was a major turnout of emergency services at Ronaldsway Airport this evening (Friday), after a flight from Birmingham radioed ahead to say one of its engines had failed.
It was what's known as 'a positioning flight', so there were no passengers onboard, but because of the nature of the incident fire, police and ambulance crews were scrambled, and roads around the airport were closed.
The pilots landed the aircraft safely at around 7.25pm, and the roads reopened shortly afterwards.
Well done to the crew, but that is what they are trained to deal with. As one who spent many happy hours flying and landing (or more often going around) a twin around on one engine either learning or revalidating a rating could someone explain why the level of response needs to be so high?
After all the schools are on holiday, the playing fields are empty. All right there was a strong crosswind, but closing roads? Is that really necessary?
Happy to hear someone explain why.